Prophet 6 - Dave Smith Instruments Step Sequencer

Published on Mar 12, 2016 Mistaken For Robots

"The 80's flows from the Prophet!!!"

Sequential Prophet-6 Presets 400-449

Published on Apr 24, 2017 Pure Ambient Drone

"Sequential Circuits Prophet 6 Synthesizer Patches, Sounds and Presets Demo, Patches 400-449.

Part 7 of me playing the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 6 module with no external effects. Played notes up and down to give an idea of what each patch sounds like."

All parts here.

Lavender Announces European Spring Shows

I am happy to announce MATRIXSYNTH member Lavender will be performing in Europe this Spring. See this previous post for his latest video for Carved Intentions.


"Lavender announces European Spring Shows:

04/23 ............ Humboldthain Club ......… Berlin
04/26 ………...... Niko Matcha ......…….. Brussels *
04/28 …............... Spektrum .................. Berlin
04/29 ….…........ Modularsquare ............ Paris

Details/tickets: www.lavendersynth.com

Description:
Transforming field recordings into new sound objects and re-purposing them in the context of depth of field and spatial placement. A meditative performance using a minimal modular synthesizer setup and video projections.

* Brussels set will be followed by a collaborative techno set w/ CADENC (Belgium)"

'Breakfast of Champions' - ngarjuna

Published on Apr 25, 2017 ngarjuna
What's your secret?

"Modular Jam 75 - 'Breakfast of Champions'
Produced by ngarjuna
© 2017 Acid Coast

Patch Notes:
Live - the following were all put down live together
Drums
Olympia Noise Co. Patterning

SMR Patch
Two ten-step custom scales, one on each side of the ring
Sequencer One CV1 is providing the positional voltage which controls the rotation CV IN (and hence the main melody)
Into the Zvex Instant Lofi Junky modulated dynamically via uVCA (opened by SQR LFO from Octo) by PEG OR
*in this case I needed the SQR to turn on and off just before the beat divisions and learned what an AMAZING unquantized LFO the Octocontroller is as well

Modular Smooth Lead
Pitch CV and Gate from the Avalon sequencer
Pitch to Intellijel Rubicon and Pittsburgh Oscillator
PG VCO getting Octocontroller LFO to PWM and a bit of Rubicon TRI to FM
Rubicon getting sync modulation from Pittsburgh Oscillator
Rubicon Sigmoid and Pittsburgh Square Into the Omsonic RNF
Omsonic CV'd by Wogglebug STEPPED, Maths and an Octocontroller LFO (to V/oct)
Gate driving Make Noise Maths and AJH Minimod Contour Generator

Plucky Lead
2 channels of Ornament and Crime in Quantermain: Turing Mode
Handing out pitch to the STO and Sputnik 2
Sputnik2 going into Timbre modulated by PEG1 into Optomix1
STO shape modulated by Wogglebug SMOOTH into Optomix2
Maths ch4 triggered by Octo opening Optomix2
Dual ADSR ch1 triggered by a different Octo opening Optomix1
Octo gates also striking Optomix (both channels)

Bass
Abstrakt Instruments Avalon

Added later were:
Samples
Acid Voices
Other stuff"

NOVATION PEAK Demo (no talking)

Published on Apr 24, 2017 Bonedo

"Novation Peak - Sound Demo of Novation's Hybrid Digital Analog Synthesizer."

Buchla Music Easel Live Set with Program Cards

Published on Apr 25, 2017 Ritchie DeCarlo

"Made a few presets with the program cards (Thanx to Todd Barton)
Contemplating a live set with just the Easel.
Still feels like other synths should get involved......"

Improvisation in The Ballroom, Smallcleugh Mine Update

See the update in this post. Fascinating stuff!

Two More Demos of the Upcoming CS80 Rack, Deckard's Dream

had the chance to play few hours with the amazing @deckardsdream synthesizer #cs80#yamaha#synth#synthesize#vintage#analog#deckardsdream#sputnik#modular#eurorack#oscillator#filter#vangelis#bladerunner#blade#runner

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amazing deckardsdream synthesizer #cs80#yamaha#synth#synthesize#vintage#analog#deckardsdream#sputnik#modular#eurorack#oscillator#filter#vangelis#bladerunner#blade#runner

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These spotted and sent in via Soviet Space Child.

Superbooth 2017 - Frap Tools Sapel & Fumana

Published on Apr 25, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Simone from Frap Tools gave us a great walk through the Sapel random generator. Lots of random, lots of control and lots of output. The new module is Fumana which sounds great but I thought it was another 16 band fixed filter bank. However, it's a 32 band filter bank as there's a second hidden layer you can input to which allows full 16 band vocoding. Nice!"

via Frap Tools

"fumana / ˈfuma:na / s.f. [dialect of Modena, from fūmus, ‘smoke’] – ‘fog’. Like spectres use to lie into the thick fog (which the Modenese countrisyde is pretty rich of), so many spectral capabilities and functions do within the thick bands of the ‘fumana’.
The FUMANA is an all analog dual filter bank with various control to access dynamically these bands. Each filter bank is composed of an array of 16 independent 48dB/oct bandpass filters. Having two identical filter arrays, allows you to use one of those for spectral analysis (of a modulator signal) and the other for spectral re-synthesis (of the main signal). Each array is sub-grouped in odd and even bands (numbering these increasingly from 1 to 16 from left to right). It is possible to apply different signal to odd and even bands, both for main and/or modulator arrays. This, together with the 16 envelope followers connected to each band of the modulator filterbank, and the 16 VCA connected to each band of the main filterbank, allows the FUMANA to perform a single 16 bands or a dual 8 bands analog spectral transfer.

While the upper section provide access to each main filter’s direct output, the lower section has 4 voltage controllable parameters to manage two independent functions for further spectral editing: tilt and scan.

The tilt, as the name suggest, tilts the spectrum, adding and subtracting amplitude to the 16 bands, emphasizing lower or high bands, and attenuating high or lower bands: this is managed only with the green potentiometer.

The scan, instead, works with three parameters: peak/notch, band selector and width. Like in a parametric equalizer, where is possible to set peak/notch gain, frequency and slope, the FUMANA uses three parameters to set which is the center band to perform this manipulation, then if that band should be emphasized or attenuated, and how this action is extended to nearby bands.

In addition to the 16 bandpass outputs, there are other 4 outputs provided: the all bands output, the all envelope followers output, the odd bands and the even bands output. These two have the options to be inverted in phase with two switches, in order to obtain even more combination when summed together, maybe/also with the “all bands output”, using, for example the 333 module.

Since a spectral transfer tool may be used as a “vocoder-like-effect”, the FUMANA provides an input for an external noise which may be used for unvoiced (fricative/sibilants) sounds as words containing or starting with s, f, z, ch and other fricative sounds ([s] [z] [ʃ] [tʃ] [dʒ] [ts] [ʂ] [f] [v] [ɸ] [θ] [ʒ] etc etc)."

Reactable Releases Steps - MIDI Sequencer for iPhone

iTunes: STEPS - MIDI Sequencer by Reactable - Reactable Systems SL

"Steps by Reactable is a small yet powerful MIDI sequencer that allows you to create complex rhythmic patterns in a surprising new way. Forget piano rolls and experiment with Steps’ inspiring dials. With Steps you can control any MIDI compatible app, send MIDI over network to your laptop or any other compatible device, and even synchronize external hardware analog synths such as Korg Volcas or Pocket Operators via an audio cable.

Features:

- Plug and play MIDI-out system automatically sends to all available MIDI input ports and our own virtual port.

- Connect your iDevice with an external MIDI interface and control MIDI hardware.

- Synchronize external hardware synths such as Korg Volca or Pocket operators via the audio output.

- A carefully designed user interface that allows you to quickly switch between performance to editing mode.

- Play together with Ableton Link and sync multiple apps and devices over WiFi.

- Global Swing function (50% - 75%) - applied automatically to eight and sixteenth notes.

- Save and recall sequences, seamlessly during playback.

- Global bpm control ranging from 20 to 999 BPM.

- Global Gate level allows global control of note duration.

- Global MIDI velocity control.

- Global Glide function applies pitch bend to small distances between adjacent steps (if the synth being controlled supports pitch bend).

- Global transpose ribbon allows for easy transposition of the entire pattern.

- Step pitch preview function (available while transport is stopped)."

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